I often look at innovative products on the net, for example ( Read more... )

I still cannot understand why there was not a rush for this counter at Walmart yesterday...


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I cannot understand the fact that advertisements are now totally associated in our minds with fiction...we treat them as a form of entertainment, and often remember ads even when we don't remember the products they are supposed to be promoting ( Read more... )

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Before the heritage walk began, I walked around. And found this:


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There was a time when we could just go and buy a "jhAdoo" (grass broom), paying some piddly amount. But no longer. Buying brooms is practically a hypermarket experience now. And to inviegle the buyer, let's see how brooms are marketed ( Read more... )

One of the things I love to do is to go wandering around the market area; and I found a lot of shapes...

Here are the papayas. It fascinates me that they ripen in this fashion, with the greener areas making star shapes:


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Walking around in the Jayanagar 9th Block market, quite literally smelling the roses, smiling at the people whom I buy regularly from...buying crisp apples, firm oranges (oh my, that sounds like that lovely dirty song from "The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox"), pomegranates (which some fruit shops spell as "pome granite"), juicy pears...looking at ( Read more... )